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Claims of inclusion that mask exclusion. Schools describe themselves as inclusive whilst maintaining practices that remove disabled students from classrooms, ration support, and prioritise non-disabled students’ comfort over disabled students’ rights. Performative inclusion operates through rhetorical commitment to diversity alongside material abandonment, positioning exclusion as unfortunate necessity rather than policy choice. Performative inclusion allows schools to maintain legitimacy whilst enacting violence.

You arrive at the school believing something very specific. If you are just reasonable enough, grateful enough, cooperative enough, your child will be selected. Selected from among all the struggling disabled children. Selected as the one who deserves rescue. You see…